TERRIFIED in a Sentence
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151 example sentences for TERRIFIED, such as:
1. I'm terrified of flying I'd rather go by sea.
2. He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
3. My sister, who was older, was terrified and wept.
4. Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.
5. That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
2. He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
3. My sister, who was older, was terrified and wept.
4. Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.
5. That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
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Meanings and Examples of TERRIFIED
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terrified
v. fill with terror; frighten greatly
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1 On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, crouching down like a terrified dog.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
2 His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little became impregnated with fear.
3 My sister, who was older, was terrified and wept.
4 Hence the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls surrendering their swords.
5 The heart is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many brave men.
6 An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh.
7 So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be lacking in the house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
8 The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she was unfamiliar, and which terrified her.
9 No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and ecstatic.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
10 That thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes Saint-Marcel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
11 The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance.
12 If one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other side of it.
13 It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
14 The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and struck a pane with her fist.
15 The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight.
Example Sentence:
1 She was absolutely terrified at the thought of jumping off the bridge.
2 That first night I emceed I was absolutely terrified.
3 You've got to appear calm in an interview even if you're terrified underneath.
4 He huddled in the corner like a terrified child.
5 I'm terrified of flying I'd rather go by sea.
6 Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified newlywed in Hitchcock's “Suspicion,” died.
7 Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
8 Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
9 A terrifying scream in the blackness of the night made my blood run cold.
10 These thieves operate with terrifying stealth - they can easily steal from the pockets of unsuspecting travellers.
11 Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.
12 The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.